Johnny Dio

Giovanni Ignazio "Johnny Dio" Dioguardi (29 April 1914-12 January 1979) was a Lucchese crime family associate and labor racketeer. He was known for his association with Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, creating fake union locals to help him get elected.

Biography
Giovanni Ignazio Dioguardi was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York on 29 April 1914, the son of a Mafia enforcer who was murdered in 1930. "Johnny Dio" became an associate of hitmen and labor racketeers such as Louis Buchalter and Jacob Shapiro, establishing a protection racket in the Garment District. He later established a dress manufacturing plant in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but he returned to labor racketeering in 1950. In 1956, he was behind the acid attack that blinded journalist Victor Riesel, and he also created fake labor union locals to help Jimmy Hoffa become General President of the Teamsters. During the 1970s, he was imprisoned at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, where he was cellmates with Henry Hill and Paul Varrio. He died in the prison hospital in 1979.